Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years. They tilled the fertile soil and earned renown for the juicy peaches they sold. In 1974 their homes, schools and churches were bulldozed by the National Party government, and they were driven into the wilderness, victims of the country's apartheid laws, which reserved 87% of the land for whites. Today the Pedis are among the first black South Africans to regain legal title to land so callously seized. It is a path thousands of others will soon follow...
Nine hundred miles away in the Western Cape, white farmer Henry Hall, who was uprooted by a quirk of the same apartheid regime, is helping his black workers become shareholders in his thriving $10 million fruit-exporting business. The 170 laborers on his farm, some descended from slaves of the original Dutch settlers, have for the first time in their lives a financial asset to pass on to their children...
Although Hall was ousted from his farm in Ciskei 13 years ago, when the so- called black homeland became "independent," he is now solidly re- established on rich terrain 60 miles from Cape Town. He looks back on apartheid as "a dreadful fiasco" for everyone concerned. "We're doing well again," he says. "I reckoned it was time I started giving something back." He is one of an increasing number of whites who are trying to help penniless black workers become property owners...
...succeed, the government will have to find ways to advance the rights of the disinherited blacks without touching off the latent anger of die-hard whites. Officials say they hope to avoid giving the impression that they are doing to the whites what whites did to blacks under apartheid: Mandela has pledged publicly that the new law will "do nothing of the sort." While many claims for land taken by the government, and then leased or sold to whites, will be easy to settle, the government insists that in no case will there be expropriations of land without proper compensation...
...positions go unquestioned. Helms has always been a bomb thrower, unafraid of blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler. He still refers to the world's most populous country as "Red" China. He stuck up for the architects of apartheid over the black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after debating Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, about the virtues of the Confederate flag, he said, "I'm going...